As it happens, in these same weeks, we are celebrating my own two daughters' respective teenage milestone birthdays. They are always on my mind as we cover the ordeals of the families enduring the murder trial and the missing person search.

I have not yet figured out professional detachment, how to block the deep and personal hurt for parents like Mrs. Osorio and the Aguilars.

There were the Ryces, the Goughs, the Melendis ... covering each of their heartbreaking cases is like discovering a parents' most profound pain for the first time.

If you are a parent reading this, you know that feeling of being potentially vulnerable to some cruel outside force suddenly ripping from you the most important thing in your life.

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